How to Use Ammonite in a Sentence

Ammonite

noun

• This wasn’t to say that mosasaurs never ate ammonites, though.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
• The fish in question, with the ammonite located just below its spine.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023
• What the girl had found was the fossil of an ammonite, a sea creature that went the way of the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
  — CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
• The Earp homestead is built on a bedrock of ammonite, which acts as a powerful revenant repellant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2018
• In addition, the amber contained the shells of squid-like critters called ammonites, which also lived in the sea.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 11 Mar. 2020
• But despite centuries of research, many mysteries still surround ammonites.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
• But as the shell was pulled along by the current the impression widened, till 18 ridges become visible before the ammonite plopped over.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
• These included ichthyosaurs—dolphin-like reptiles—as well as turtles, fish, ammonites, crabs, mollusks, sharks, and at least one species of crocodyliform.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2023
• The couple, who own a farm in nearby Hays, had previously collected ammonites and tiny bones while hiking through the shortgrass prairie.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Fed by a constant stream of nutrients, the ocean supported all walks of life, from snails and ammonites to the massive Mosasaurus, an extinct group of marine reptiles.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
• And her interest in fossils is linked from the start to her passionate attachment to another girl her own age who identifies an ammonite that the narrator finds on the beach.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• One hundred and thirty million years ago, countless ammonites of all shapes and sizes swam in the proto-Caribbean Sea alongside fishes and enormous marine predators.
  — Santiago Flórez, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• Even the inexperienced are likely to find the 200-million-year-old shells of ammonites (extinct ancestors of mollusks) embedded in the rocks along the shore.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Tsujita and Westermann also cataloged the positive evidence that mosasaurs bit ammonites.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
• Most commonly seen in marine fossils, such as ammonites or trilobites, pyritization can produce highly detailed, metallic-looking fossils that are both scientifically valuable and visually striking.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
• The exhibition achieves that goal with a thoughtful and heady combination of nearly 200 scientific and literary publications; artworks; and loans, including ammonites, trilobites and a cast of an ichthyosaurus skull.
  — Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024